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Data Governance And Compliance practice questions

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▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

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Data Governance And Compliance questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1easymultiple choice

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An auditor requests a log of all file sharing activities in Drive for the past 6 months. Where can you retrieve this information?

Trap 1: User's Drive settings

Users cannot access global audit logs.

Trap 2: DLP incident reports

DLP reports only cover policy violations.

Trap 3: Google Vault Matters

Vault is for retention, not general audit activity reporting.

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A
Security Center Investigation Tool
The investigation tool allows searching and exporting audit logs for Drive and other services.
B
User's Drive settings
Why wrong: Users cannot access global audit logs.
C
DLP incident reports
Why wrong: DLP reports only cover policy violations.
D
Google Vault Matters
Why wrong: Vault is for retention, not general audit activity reporting.

Data Governance And Compliance practice questions

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Data Governance And Compliance questions

An auditor requests a log of all file sharing activities in Drive for the past 6 months. Where can you retrieve this information?

You need to block Gmail messages containing specific keywords related to a confidential project. Which tool do you use?

A user is leaving the company. You need to keep their data for 7 years. What is the best practice?

You need to ensure that credit card numbers are not sent via Gmail by your employees. Which tool should you configure?

You need to prevent users from sharing sensitive files outside the organization. Which setting should you modify?

How can you ensure that deleted emails are kept for 3 years even if the user empties their trash?

Your legal team requires that all emails from a specific user be preserved for an upcoming audit. Which tool should you use to ensure these messages are not deleted?

You need to investigate a potential data breach where a user downloaded a large number of sensitive files. Which tool provides the most granular audit logs for Drive file downloads?

You have a Data Region policy configured for the US. A user moves from the US to the EU. How do you trigger the migration of their existing data to the EU?

Where do you go in the Admin Console to view the current data region for your organization?

You need to monitor for potentially malicious third-party apps accessing Drive data. Which feature should you use?

Which dashboard provides a summary of security incidents and potential policy violations?

You need to ensure that Google Chat messages are retained for 5 years. How do you do this?

An employee is suspected of leaking data. You need to search their past Gmail and Drive files for specific terms. Which tool do you use?

You want to prevent sensitive Drive documents from being printed. Which setting is appropriate?

When a user leaves the company, which status should you set their account to if you want to keep their data but stop them from logging in?

Which Google Workspace service should you use to search and export user data for legal requests?

Which TWO actions can you perform in Google Vault?

Which THREE features are part of the Security Center?

You need to create a report showing which users have been affected by a specific DLP policy violation in the last month. Where can you find this?

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